O Gladstone watch over the welfare of the people.
And now, Johnny, we implore thee to act with justice to the country, and give us the benefit of Reform which is so much needed, and grant in all thy works, that you study the interests of the most patient and industrious people in the world, so that they may be blessed with peace and plenty, then will they sing, Long live the Queen, and good luck to her ministers. Amen.
Henry Disley, Printer, 57, High Street, St. Giles’s.
The Life, Trial, and probable Sentence of the
DERBYITES, DIZZYITES,
AND
ADULLAMITES,
AND THE
WHOLE HOST OF TORY CABINET MAKERS,
Who were tried at St. Stephen’s, for conspiring to burke the People’s Reform, and attempting to pass a Counterfeit Bill instead of a Genuine Article; thereby imposing upon a certain respectable firm, well-known as Messrs John Bull and Company. The prosecution was conducted by those able Advocates for Reform, Bright and Gladstone. The offenders were undefended, as no one could be found willing to take their cause in hand on account of their previous bad character.
Now the trial of these Anti-Reformers was highly amusing, owing to the singular conduct of some of the offenders.
And the proceedings was prefaced by that old-stock farce called the Struggle for Reform, or John Bull mesmerised.